David Doucette

Award-winning novelist and musician, David Doucette grew up in Ingonish Beach, Cape Breton Island. A Literature graduate of St. Francis Xavier and Saint Mary’s Universities, Doucette has been writing stories and composing music since the age of 6. His novel Strong at the Broken Places won the Dartmouth Book Award for Best Atlantic Canadian Fiction. Doucette has lived for long periods in Asia, South America and the Middle East, working as a novelist, instrumentalist, songwriter, film composer and screenplay writer. He is owner of Smokey Studios, a film and music production company set in the Highlands of Cape Breton Island. Current projects include the feature film, North of Smokey, which after 6 years in development is due out in the fall of 2025. The long-awaited Cape Breton jazz documentary The Piano Tuner will see a ‘Private Screening - Open to All’ at The Boardmore Theatre in Sydney, Cape Breton on Oct 30th, 2025.